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Thunderbird needs it even more

While Firefox can be reasonably integrated with some tweaking (more like making GTK+ play well with KDE in general), Thunderbird is in the worse position. For example on Windows it has good indicators for new mail (in the system tray). Good luck having the same level of comfort with notifications in KDE...

Does this mean we might see a Qt port of FF in the future or is it just about the Dolphin File manager.

Probably to my reading of the threads, it's something along the lines of the openSUSE FF integration, which seems to me to work pretty well in openSUSE releases including Tumbleweed rolling release, issues with dialogs, icons and copy/paste annoyances which make FF clumsy in KDE environment. My reading of the original thread, was it's other distros who have trouble porting it consistently without the original developer.

A Qt based FF would be nice, I'm just not sure where/what is going to motivate the effort. On Desktop RAM has grown faster than FireFox memory consumption, just tried visiting same pages/tabs with Reqonq for a comparison and it did save 200MB overal, with more shared; but that's freshly started without all the Add Ons, syncing and vast bookmark collection that the frontline browser accumulates.

While Firefox can be reasonably integrated with some tweaking (more like making GTK+ play well with KDE in general), Thunderbird is in the worse position. For example on Windows it has good indicators for new mail (in the system tray). Good luck having the same level of comfort with notifications in KDE...

There's a chicken and egg situation there. KDE has it's own capable integrated Mail client, so there's likely few KDE users who use Thunderbird, or developers who care about it.

KDE's own browser tech suffered comparatively in feature race so FF was main browser (even under KDE) in the large distros (eventually selected as the best available starting point by Apple for Safari).

FINALLY... This (and oo.org integration... and most of all, the poor flash for Linux) have been anoying me a lot for years and years !

Shameful software such as flash don't deserve a better support for linux, they just deserve to die... modern browser supports everything flash is capable, even protected content like netflix will soon be supported